It has been a while.

Sooooo.... my life has been CRAZY for the last year. Having children 18 months apart is really a challenging thing.

Last year in a nut shell

~Had another child

~Gall bladder removed

~Daughter turned 5

~Son turned 2

~Vacation to SC

~Visited family in the NW for a month

~Had Garage Sale

~Hubby got job offer

~Packed my entire house

~Moved 2500 miles away

~Unpacked my entire house

~Son turned 1

~Daughter turned 6

wow.

We are settled in and happy to be blooming where we are planted right now.

Magazine Page Wreath

I took this idea and this idea and tweeked a little and made this wreath. I used a pizza box and cut out the square from then covered it with magazine pages as a base. I spray painted it black but I didn't like how the black showed through. So the color variation in the magazine pages was better as a background. Then over MANY nights I made these magazine page rolled up things. It took FOREVER... But I love the way it turned out!

Bermuda Grass Wreath

Bermuda Grass is slowly taking over our yard and it sends out these crazy long shoots. They are creeping out even onto our driveway. I pulled on one and it uprooted really easy. I kept walking around and pulling up long stands of this grass. Soon I had a whole hand full. Then I remembered Nester's "You made a wreath out of WHAT?" and thought I bet I can make a wreath out of this grass... so I did.

Giveaway

http://theoliveparent.blogspot.com/2011/06/coconut-cream-concentrate-giveaway.html

I'm in love with coconut oil right now! Margie made brownies with it the other day and I have been slathering up with it!

Check out this link to enter to win some!

breeze in her blonde hair

Just entered a weekly photo contest with this shot.. head on over to iheartfaces to see more.

So Pretty.

My Beach Boy

Curly Head Boy!

Miss you Mr. M

Happy Baby!

Fun in the Sun!

2 sentences out of the book that pertains to Mr. D's new job!

By extension, the term "phasor" can also be applies to impedance, and related complex quantities that are not time dependent.

The common pictoral form of representing electrical and magnetic phasor quantities use the Cartesian coordinates with x (the abscissa) as the axis of real quantities and y (the ordinate) as the axis of imaginary quantities.

Did you get any of that... I know I didn't!

Hi Momma!

This kid loves the water! He was an ice cube and still cried when I brough him in for a warm bath. But then once he realized he was back in water he was all smiles again!

Never done this in April before!

Hunting for Eggs

Baby D is all BOY!

My little guy was all over the place today while daddy was washing the truck. Notice in the lower right corner.. he has just crawled under the truck. He also had no reserves about playing with his face in the nozzle from the sprayer of tyhe hose. At one point he was laying on him tummy drinking out of it. He even was so quick to pick up a dried worm and JUST ABOUT get it into his mouth as I was leaping to him and grabbing it out of his hand. I have to say that having a BOY is very different than having a girl. He was soaked head to toe when we brought him in the house and he would barely sit still long enough for me to scrub him in the bath. This little guy is going to keep me on my toes.

He is Risen.

We were blessed to share Easter with friends on the lake today. We shared lunch, a game and great fellowship. We met a new family towards the end and had a wonderful time. It was a wonderful day. We are so thankful Jesus died on the cross so we can live. And what a wonderful life it is!

No you didn't

Pulling your self up now huh?!?!?

Happy 9 months!

Happy 9 Months my snaggle tooth boy.
You are just learning to wave and today you pulled yourself up on the bottom stair. You have 3 teeth and another on the way. I think that you will have blue eyes but the jury is still out on that one. You love your daddy and your sister. You love to BITE! You can crawl so fast..... you remind me of a bulldog when you crawl because you turn you hands inward. You are such a sweet little boy and you light up everyone's face that looks at you. You are the light of your BSF class and all the ladies gush over you. You are smothered in kisses daily and love to give kisses back. I think you will have curly hair. You had your first try of cornbread muffin tonight and you devoured it. You also tried hard boiled egg yolk and seemed to enjoy it. You go into a panic when you see me making your bottle and you love your blanket. You have started to sleep on your side now and you also love to play peek-a-boo. You love to take a bath in my big tub. You are my big boy and I don't know where the last 9 months have gone. You are growing SO FAST!

1 day of Vacation